Erik Hall Solo Three

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• There’s something soothing about minimal music – a thoughtful joy that comes from sustained repetition and subtle variation. “Solo Three,” the sophisticatedly captivating new album by Michigan-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, captures this hypnotic power while reinterpreting a selection of contemporary classical works. Hall’s penchant for minimalism began decades ago when he first encountered Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians” as a jazz drummer at the University of Michigan. The piece completely changed his career.

  Years later, during a creative lull, he took up this formative work again and tried his hand at a new solo composition. Alone in his home studio, Hall worked meticulously to recreate Reich’s complex, interlocking architecture, replacing the piece’s orc